Nissan Motor Co. said it has developed a new type of paint that significantly reduces the temperature inside vehicles parked in direct sunlight.
The surface of a car coated with the innovative material remains up to 12 degrees cooler than that of a vehicle with standard paint, tests showed.
The company said the coating material can help rein in the temperature rise not only on the car’s body but also in the vehicle when exposed to direct sunlight.
Forget Nissan but I’ll take the paint.
Yeah but 350Z tho
Yeah but fuck Nissan
Agreed, but mostly fuck modern Nissan. 90s and 2000s Nissan were cool.
I had a 370Z. Basically the same chassis with a bigger engine.
Feels like sitting in a bathtub. It’s got a heavy ass flywheel that makes the V6 feel as smooth as a V8, but with predictable effects on responsiveness. You can cut the fly weight in half and it’s still perfectly good to run on the street without issues.
I traded it in for an Miata NC and never looked back. Sure, the Z has more power, but it doesn’t make good use of it the way a Miata does.
Funny you mention that; I had the opportunity to buy an ND Miata for $5K more. Went with the 350Z instead. Now your comment is making me second guess myself, even though I love how the 350 handles.
It glides through corners so damn well, I can’t possibly imagine it getting any better than this, but you “Miata is always the answer” people always come of the woodwork and make me second guess my decision. The low horsepower figures always got to me. But now I’m thinking that maybe I should have just taken the damn test drive before falling in love with the Z.
There’s a very long list of two door sports cars I’d buy instead of one of those bloated excuses.
I’d like to see that list, cause I’m I’m considering selling the car in a year or two. Requirements: 2 doors, convertable, 300+ BHP, manual transmission, stability control (cause I’m a bad driver lol), under $15K.
Miata, BRZ, GT86, possibly a WRX if you want something more practical.
I mean, if you’re a middle age bro with a retail supervisor job compensating to show off to teen girls, I guess.
I see, thanks for pointing out that I’m a stereotype. FML
TBF, the 350Z was the sports car to have when I was a teenager. Not my fault that I can only afford one just now in my mid-30s, haha. I blame Ronald Regan for screwing over working-class citizens. If I had the money my parents had, I’d be driving an EV by now.
12 degrees? I guess that’s cool but still well within egg frying temperature around here.
There’s no paint on the planet that will make most of their cars cool.
Also great for city climate since heated up cars are acting like a heat battery making it significantly slower for a city to cool down once the sun goes away
Ideally there would be no openly parked cars but I guess this is the next best thing
How big is the difference between black and silver, metallic and non-metallic paint?
It’s surprisingly low. A German institute conducted a few experiments and the most extreme discrepancy was 1.5 degrees Celsius or something.
That typo reverses the meaning by being one letter off.
Lol
Yeah, I know it’s an NSX. Deal with it.
What is the relevance here?
If you ever had balls, you’d know
JDM internet tough guy shit 🤣
Weird
Again, what does a somewhat overrated 90s Honda have to do with Nissan’s paint options? And what’s with the tacky body kit?
Especially since it was largely a failure in the racing series it competed which at the time was dominated for years by Nissan.
cringe
Why don’t they just make the whole
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12 degrees on roof, 5 on car seat. It’s in the article
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Got in my car after work yesterday and it was 102F inside. It was awful
Lucky! I’ve seen 150 here in Louisiana.
And even higher when I lived in the Mojave desert. Like, if you didn’t leave a window cracked there’s a real chance your windshield cracks.
I live in Pa, so our weather isn’t crazy hot like the south. I can’t imagine the weather where you’ve lived. 85F is my upper limit. Anything over makes me feel like I’m going to die.
I was working outside in 96F and nearly 50% humidity within the past week.
If we continue trying to work outside during the middle of the summer day, as our summers get hotter every year, people are going to start to die.
I wonder how many it will take for America to adjust. I assume a lot more than I’m comfortable with.
I was outside in 96F yesterday herding my ducks for 10 mins and my whole night was ruined because I got so sick from the heat.
Idk how people who work outside constantly do it
Must have had you wishing for a nuclear winter.
As someone living in Wisconsin with salty road winters, I’ll say that Nissan’s reputation is mostly trash here based specifically on their paint
As someone who used to live there, I’ll say that Wisconsin’s reputation is mostly trash based specifically on their winters
Also being the Alabama of the North.
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I just love how humans will do anything other than actually focus on fixing the problem. Love it.
Like reducing the number of cars.
Ohh too much traffic! 🤔 Let’s expand the freeways until you need a freeway to cross other freeways.
Just one more lane will fix traffic bro
I would argue that the new paint could help alleviate the issue, since it would incentivise people to decrease use of the AC. My concern then would be how polluting is the production of the new paint compared to the current version.
My immediate thought was to wonder if this would help give kids who get left in a car by mistake have more of a fighting chance
So… You want to turn off the sun? This has nothing to do with climate change, the sun hasn’t changed intensity in a few 100 years, so sun makes things warm
Lol
Ah yes. Why reduce the temperature of your car by 12 degrees when you can just alter the entire planet instead.
Lol
Uhh, what? The problem of things getting hot in the sun?
Lol
Blow up the sun. Easy.
I like blowing things up.
You’re right, running AC more off of internal combustion engines is a better path to the solution.
Lol
Anything to not add a cooling system to the ev batteries.
